English composer Michael Nyman performs works from the soundtrack to The Piano (Big my secret, Silver-fingered fling, The heart asks pleasure first) on solo piano at Other Minds 11 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Michael Nyman, piano.
Topics: Soundtrack, Minimalism
Source: Other Minds
English Composer Michael Nyman performs his piano accompaniment to the silent film Manhatta (Paul Strand, 1920) at Other Minds 11 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005. Michael Nyman, piano
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Topics: Minimalism, 20th Century Classical
Source: Other Minds
San Francisco's Del Sol String Quartet performs the San Francisco Premiere of Michael Nyman's String Quartet No. 3 (1989) at Other Minds 11 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Nyman's intensely moving String Quartet No. 3, composed in Armenia and redolent of sadness of the music of that oppressed people, is performed by Del Sol. Del Sol String Quartet Charlton Lee, viola Kate Stenberg, violin Rick Shinozaki, violin Monica Scott, cello
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Topics: Minimalism, 20th Century Classical
Source: Other Minds
U.S. Concert Premiere of The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (2001) by Michael Nyman performed by the Del Sol String Quartet with Soprano Cheryl Keller at Other Minds 11 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005. Del Sol String Quartet Charlton Lee, viola Kate Stenberg, violin Rick Shinozaki, violin Monica Scott, cello Cheryl Keller, soprano Text by visual artist Mary Kelly, whose installation of a room-sized lint sculpture was the inspiration for the composition.
Topic: 20th Century Classical
Source: Other Minds
2015 marked the 20th anniversary of the Other Minds Festival of New Music. Other Minds Executive & Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian explained the 20th anniversary as an opportunity to reflect on two decades’ worth of prescient programming. "As we look back at the nearly 200 composers we've brought to San Francisco for these gatherings, it seemed a good time to tip our hat to some of our most surprising discoveries who have gone on to make signal contributions to international...
Topics: New Music, Lecture, Orchestral Music, Tigran Mansurian, Michael Nyman, Youth orchestras, SOTA,...
Panel discussion with Phill Niblock, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Michael Nyman, & Seth Josel moderated by Charles Amirkhanian. The composers discuss the pieces to be played in the following concert.
Topics: Other Minds Festival of New Music, OM 11, Lecture, Panel Discussion, 20th Century Classical
From KSJN (St. Paul, Minnesota) host Melinda Ward, of the Walker Art Center, introduces interviews and music by composers that were featured during the 1980 New Music America Festival in St. Paul Minnesota. This includes lengthy excerpts from Robert Ashley’s opera “Perfect Lives (Private Parts) and Alvin Curran’s mixed media piece “Small Circles Great Plains”. Also included is a free improvisation with violinist Leroy Jenkins and saxophonist Oliver Lake, works for piano by William...
Topics: KPFA-FM, KSJN, Interview and Music, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, New Music
2015 marked the 20th anniversary of the Other Minds Festival of New Music. Other Minds Executive & Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian explained the 20th anniversary as an opportunity to reflect on two decades’ worth of prescient programming. "As we look back at the nearly 200 composers we've brought to San Francisco for these gatherings, it seemed a good time to tip our hat to some of our most surprising discoveries who have gone on to make signal contributions to international...
Topics: New Music, Lecture, Pauline Oliveros, OM 20, Don Byron, Errollyn Wallen, Charles Amirkhanian, Jazz,...
Fountain pens were the early 20th Century equivalent of the laptop computer. Allowing individuals the ability to write without being tied to a desk and inkwell, this unique American invention came to symbolize literacy for the man or woman who owned and carried one. Recently, as computer technology has threatened to wipe out the individual personality of the handwritten word, hoards of collectors have rediscovered the joy of writing with new and vintage instruments which can vary the width of...
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Morning Concert series, Other Finds, Fountain Pens
In this educational and erudite program, recorded on February 25, 1976, Charles Amirkhanian begins by introducing two compositions: “Inori” a work for orchestra by Karlheinz Stockhausen, who in an interview with Dutch Radio describes his disappointment with the lack of popular engagement with many of his compositional choices; and “Empty Mirror” a 1975 text-sound composition by Neil Rolnick. Charles is then joined in the studio by Joan La Barbara who presents a recording of her 1975...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity series, Interview, Music, New Music, Orchestral Music
